Dr. Bernard Harris became the first Black man to do a space walk. His family watched nervously seeing him take off into space ...

Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes was sworn in as the 77th president of The Florida Bar, becoming the first African American woman to ...

While participating in the Library’s Archives, History, and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA), [Lucy Havens] had ...

His first novel, “Invisible Man,” about social and intellectual issues faced by African Americans, was published in 1952 and the only one published before his death. First African-American To ...

The First Coast has more “Firsts” in relation to African-American history than perhaps any other region of the American South. Unfortunately, the publicity machines, and on occasion faux facts ...

In 1925, a group of African American funeral directors convened to create a cemetery free of racial discrimination ...

James R. Rodgers Sr., who became the first African American airport executive director when appointed to the role in Little ...

For Juneteenth, here's our growing database of African American burial grounds in New Jersey — and what they mean to us today ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...